So how do we take a piece of flat 18 gauge sheet steel, and make it into a tunnel for a new gas tank on a old Honda motorcycle? A lot of beating, real hard beating!
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| Flat 18 Ga. |
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| Beat it, strap it down. |
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| Grabbed a plastic hammer from the shop |
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| It started getting hard towards the neck. |
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| The SS zip tie broke so I just got some cheap wire I had lying around and fastened her down |
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| Over all I don't think this turned out bad. |
So yeah only took an hour and half to do this. I had the piece about 5"x24" but that was about 6" to long. I had no way of cutting it till I found some cold chisels in my tool box. I struck a line and it broke right in half and now it was 5"x18". I wish I wouldn't of had to beat the crap out of my back bone, I muffed up that paint something fierce, also you never know what structural damage was caused. I don't think it affected the integrity of the backbones steel because it was a soft hammer and not metal on metal but you never know. So now sometime by the end of this week or next I'll cut the tank out, but I would like to ask should I cut out all separate panels and weld them up individually or try and keep as much as possible in flat development and bend it up?
Thanks for looking.
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